Download or read book THE WISDOM OF THE DESERT FATHERS SYSTEMATIC SAYINGS from the ANONYMOUS SERIES OF THE APOPHTHEGMATA PATRUM written by and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairacres Publications 48 Sister Benedicta notes in her Introduction that ‘the virtues and obligations inherent in the gospel for all are presented in the literature of the desert in stark and vivid colours, like a poster in their clarity’. In this collection of Sayings from the desert tradition arranged under subject headings, the monks and nuns of fourth-century Egypt show us that the spirituality of the desert is for everyone. Their teaching speaks to any who follow the way of Christ; it is concerned more with action and behaviour than with mystical experience, with compassion, forbearance, self-knowledge and facing inner conflict.